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kerbiloid

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  1. Banned for confusing the country.
  2. Granted. The Earth has coincidentally passed 1 m while they were teleporting, so the roofs stay where they were. I wish the true Dark Phoenix (aka Famke Janssen) had defeated her opponents and the pseudo-Dark Phoenix never happened.
  3. V-2 was 320 km / 5 min. Pershing II had 2 500 km / 5..10 min. Low-trajectory SLBM as well. 30 min is for ICBM. Japan has 5+ min from launch to hit. Israel has a lot of of them, for the rockets of any size and color. Though, it's because they need to be warned about small 100+ mm rockets, when you can hide in any strong building, rather than about nukes. Even if warn about the launch immediately, not a lot of things can be done in five minutes by random people. It would take several minutes just to get out from a skyscraper. Subway. Only subway.
  4. Granted. The woodcutters are providing the coalers with enough wood to make enough charcoal to produce enough hydrogen for their director's son toy car. I wish there was a planet consisting of thorium in the Solar System..
  5. Think tank A tank with a crew of PhD's.
  6. Banned for milleniaristic elitism.
  7. Chancellor The person who gives a chance.
  8. A driveway usually consists of absence of stones (stone vacuum), until the very first has been met. The same with gas clouds.
  9. Both. NASA was tending to give pilots as much freedom to pet their USAF vanity to let the vessel be as manually controllable as possible. So, their manual controls were assisted with then-advanced computers. *** The Soviet ships were as much automated as possible with as simple electronics as possible, but with the backup manual override, because who cares what the pilot wants because on the one hand the electronics was more poor and the human assistance was often required, but on the other hand the more poor electronics required more launches which made the human control too expensive and thus impossible. So, the Soviet crafts were oriented on advanced analog devices (more electrics than electronics) and the possibility of doing as much operations without a human onboard as possible. They were mostly either autonomous or remotely operated, regardless of the crew presence onboard. The first digital computers on the crewed ships appeared in mid-1970s, i.e. almost a decade later than on Apollo, but unlike the US ships, the Soviet ones theoretically weren't needing the crew at all, even for redocking. The same situation was in civil electronics. While in the US a TV-set or a tape recorder was made out of high-quality details, a similar Soviet one was made out of defective details sorted out by the military or industrial facility, having more random characteristics. This made to add various correction schemes (useless in the American TV set), to compensate and balance the signal and to jam the noise. This onone hand was making the Soviet TV set more heavy, complicated, and having more probable failure points, but on the other hand gave a good noise resistance and field repairability. R-7 didn't have a computer at all till late XX. (Only electrics and mechanics.)
  10. (Can't remember if thought out or heard somewhere) Virtualogistics Virtua logistics. When you don't have to bring by hands or walk by feet to get or deliver something.
  11. Granted. Wish + Bribe = Corrupted Wish I wish for better libcurl examples.
  12. Banned for every one of 6.022*1023 in the Whole Mole
  13. The things are much worse, it varies by orders of magnitude. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_medium#Interstellar_matter
  14. I always address to the birds as "<...> reptiles", adding pejorative adjectives. 'cuz they are.
  15. Mistress The lady of mists.
  16. As the theory predicts that the Alcubierre drive releases all impacted particles on shutdown, even its engaging would be a death sentence from the Pangalactic High Council High Court, for the whole star system extermination. P.S. Interesting, if this particle pack is enough dense, would the Alcubierre ship turn into a black hole on arrival. Or at least would it cause a fusion explosion of the packed hydrogen nuclei and vaporize the ship.
  17. One Ring to rule them all. https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/spinthariscopes/lone-ranger-atom-bomb-ring-spinthariscope.html
  18. Because it consists of cubes and cylinders, whch are perfect in their naive simplicity.
  19. Granted. You hired a guy with abacus to compute for you. I wish the rockets were squared.
  20. Banned for taking away the steam account with: several tens of RURs in the wallet KSP (paid, archived, doesn't depend on steamternet) Universe Sandbox, Simple Rockets, and Children of the Dead Earth (all paid, but instead their... unsteamed versions are installed from torr... alternatively legal source, to avoid any steaming on my machine),
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